Sewing-machine braider



(No Model.)

N. P. POOR.

SEWING MACHINE BRAIDEIL, No. 341,943. "Patented May 18, 1886.

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NELSON P. POOR, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DAVIS SEWVING MACHINE COMPANY, OF WVATERTOXVN, NEW' YORK.

SEWlNG MACHlNE RAIDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 3&1343, dated May 18, 1886.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NELSON I POOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sewing-Machine Braiders, of which the following is aspecification.

The main feature of my invention consists in forming the braider with a slot at the end ID of the bottom of an inclined or diagonal groove, through which the braid is fed edgewise to the cloth, and the needle passes through the braider and the corner or side of the edge of the braid, as hereinafter more fully set forth. 1 The object of my invention is to sew the braid to the cloth in such a way that it will stand on its edge with its flat sides substantially at right angles to the cloth.

In the drawings forming a part of this 2c specification, Figure 1 represents the braider, consisting of a metallic plate of suitable form to be attached to a sewing-machine by a screwbolt in the ordinary manner. The braid is fed through the inclined groove ain the under 2 5 side of the plate and up through slot 0, where it is sewed to the cloth at the point 3, which represents the position of the sewing-machine needle. The cloth to which the braid is to be attached is placed bottom side up 011 the braider. The relative positions of slot 0 and the needle to groovea are such that the needle sews the braid to the cloth through what may be termed the corner, or one side of the edge of the braid, in such manner as to retain 3 5 the braid in an edgewise position on the cloth. The further end of slot 0 is chamfered or made flaring at the top, in order to facilitate turning the cloth and braid in sewing on the latter in the form of loops or curves. The side of slot c at the bottom of the braider opposite notch s is inclined or curved to coincide with the inclined side of groove a, and guides the braid to an upright edgewise position to the cloth While it is being sewed.

of the braider.

Fig. 2 represents the reverse or bottom side 5 The end of slot 0 where the needle passes through forms a notch, s, in the diagonal side of groove a.

Fig. 3 is an edge View of the braider, and Fig. 41s a vertical section of the same as viewed from the opposite side. In Figs. 3 and 4 the position of the needle is shown by a vertical line, and the relative positions of the cloth e and braid o are shown in Fig. 4.

Figs. 5 to 8, inclusive, represent the braider 5 5 in a suitable form to be attached by soldering or other wellk nown means to the bottom of the presser-foot of asewing-maehine. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a presser-foot, b, with the braider attached to its bottom; and Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the same, and also showing the cloth 6 and braid o in section. Fig. 7 is a bottom view of the braider attached to the pressenfoot I), and Fig. 8 is a top view of the same detached from the presser-foot.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the position of the needle is indicated by a straight line.

When the braider forms a part of the presser-foot, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8, the right side of the cloth 6 is uppermost, and the cloth with the braid on it is fed under the braider.

I claim as my invention- A sewing machine braiding attachment having a braid-guiding passage extending to the needlehole, the walls of said passage being inclined relative to a vertical plane, and having an extension of said passage beyond the needle-hole, consisting of a slot having one of its walls inclined to coincide with the angle of said passage,substantially as set forth.

n. r. POOR.

Witnesses: I

J as. D. CLEVELAND, A. G. Mason. 

